Give it a thought -- and make it so
... By merely looking at the telephone, television or thermostat and wishing it to be used, a person with disabilities could call a friend or turn up the heat on a chilly day. Bayliss hopes that someday such people may even be able to operate a wheelchair by themselves simply by thinking their commands. "Virtual r...Research shows that brain receptor may control obesity
... constant levels of fat, similar to the way that a thermostat in a house maintains constant temperature. Previous research by Dr. Cone and other scientists also found that blocking a related neuropeptide receptor, called the MC4-R, in the brains of mice stimulates food intake and ultimately causes obesity. ...Baboon studies suggest strategies for coping with stress
... we have enough hormone?'" Sapolsky explains. That thermostat is a region in the brain called the hippocampus, which tells the adrenal glands to stop making the chemical messengers needed to turn on the body's "fight or flight" response. Its predominant functions are learning and memory. Stress-hormone levels...Researchers discover 'thermostat' that regulates bone density
...hat causes brittle bones have discovered a genetic thermostat that appears to control the accumulation of bone m...ls. Thus, LRP5 appears to be something like a bone thermostat that controls the level of bone mineralization, said Warman. Such findings suggest that enhancing th...April GEOLOGY and GSA TODAY media highlights
...uction-accretion processes. Jiggling the tropical thermostat in the Cretaceous hothouse. Richard D. Norris et ...ggest that Earth's surface temperature is set by a thermostat produced by feedback systems between incoming radiation from the sun, cloud formation, and radiated ...Scientists identify same gene in mice, humans leading to heart failure
...umans." "An example of an analogy would be how the thermostat in your home must work in a very finely tuned mann...o. "Phospholamban is the equivalent of the calcium thermostat in the heart cell. We have always known that calcium is the master switch for function within the he...Warming temperatures put tufted puffin at risk
...indswept islands the next time we stand before the thermostat or gas pump."...Analysis of biological clock may lead to greater understanding of human disease
...op similar to that employed by an air conditioning thermostat system. It reacts when the temperature gets too cold by reducing the cooling. The engineers are looking for the principles underlying the architecture of the fruit fly's system that enables it to be so robust, according to co-author Frank Doyle, a c...